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Historical Event on 2/16/1896

Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', great Hindi poet, litterateur, writer, social worker and editor, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/23/1946Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns.
3/30/1949Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), passed away.
3/7/1987Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first batsman to score 10,000 test runs in cricket a match against Pakistan at Ahmedabad.
11/20/1942Attri Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested for further six months. She was earlier arrested for personal satyagraha and to hoist the national flag in Delhi Central Jail on January 26.
1/22/1990FIR registered in Bofors kickbacks case.
12/21/1911Central Bank of India established.
1/23/1954Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad declares that the State of Kashmir is a part of India.
6/18/1993Advani takes over as party President.
9/30/1997Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff.
4/17/1923Lindsay Anderson, director (Thursday's Children), was born in Bangalore, India.